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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2001
Vinodha Ramasamy, Campbell, CA (US);
Robert Hundt, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus for profiling edges that pass through stub code segments in executable program code. The compilation and linking of a computer program sometimes generates stub code segments that implement the transfer of control to functions that are external to a local segment of code. Branches through the stub code segments hinder the analysis of edges relative to the source code. In various embodiments of the invention, edges are created to represent respective branch instructions in the executable program code. Each edge has a source attribute, a target attribute, and an edge-taken count attribute. During execution, the numbers of times edges are taken are counted, and stub entry points and stub targets are identified. For each edge having a target that matches an entry point of a stub code segment, the edge target is changed to the stub target associated with the matching entry point. By identifying edges that target stub code segments, edges that target stub code segments can be combined with other edges for correlation with the source code.